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PHILIP STUBBS [STUBBES] (c. 1555-c. 1...
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See also: English pamphleteer, was See also: born about 1555
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He is reputed to have been a See also: brother or near relation of See also: John Stubbs (q.v.)
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He was educated at Cambridge and subsequently at
See also: Oxford, but did not take a degree, spending the greater portion of his See also: time travelling about the country
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He started writing about 1581, and in 1583 published The Anatomic of Abuses
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This consisted of a virulent attack on the See also: manners, customs, amusements and fashions of the See also: period, and is still valuable for its copious information on those matters
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In 1591 Stubbs published A Christal See also: Glass for Christian See also: Women, of which at least seven See also: editions were called for, and he followed this with other semi-devotional See also: works
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He died, probably, about 161o
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